The land-use sector within the post-2020 climate regime

Download or read book The land-use sector within the post-2020 climate regime written by Charlie Parker and published by Nordic Council of Ministers. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The land-use sector serves key environmental and social functions and supports the livelihoods of around a half of the world’s population. Despite its importance, however, the climate regime fails to formulate a coherent vision or set of incentives for mitigation and adaptation from the sector. The negotiation of a future climate treaty that will take effect in 2020 presents a key opportunity to improve the current system and create an integrated accounting and incentive framework for adaptation and mitigation strategies across all land-uses. This report - conducted by Climate Focus together with UNIQUE forestry and land use - analyses the current status of the land-use sector under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and its Kyoto Protocol, and formulates options for how various incentives and systems could be harmonized under a future climate treaty.